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Originally Posted by IM0001
Look at the Xbox, Did it have a chance seeing as how it was joining in on a market that already had the big 3? (Sega later departed but hey shows you how hard the market was to figure out.)
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The XBOX succeeded because microsoft gave away money to the developers...at the same time Sony lost quite a few exclusives and Nitendo started targeting little kids...sega was already pretty much out just by their release times...
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Did Microsoft not "Fix" Windows with Win7 for all those people who disliked Vista?
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Yes..same way they fixed win ME with XP..by making you pay 2x for something that is defective and then for a fix...
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Did Android really have a clear chance when it first came out vs Winmo, BB, Palm, iPhone, etc?
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Android got support because Google started to pay manufacturers to use Android, which interested the dieing Motorola cellphone division and teamed up with Verizon (who actually knows how to market) created the "Droid" campaign.
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Everything going into WP7 looks fantastic, things that are not in it yet will be added later. (and more than likely months not years later) and the direction they are going allows for more universal app support (less this app works on this phone and not that one) universal driver requirements (no more broken drivers, slow devices, etc) and overall ease of use.
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People already have those features elsewhere....unlike buying a game console or on operating system you have to cough up a 2 year contract for something incomplete?
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One thing Microsoft Sees and knows they need is Dev support. Look at Win Mobile now. Almost every large dev that makes apps is making them for Android and iOS but not WM6. This really blows for us WM6.X users now but its mainly due to the fact that making 1 great app for all WM devices really is becoming a pain in the neck. With WM7 the app support is much easier and fluid which should help make apps easier to develop and easier to distribute to all the devices with a much more guarantee that it WILL work.
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M$ took too long getting their appstore out.and they killed most of the development by saying WP7 won't support old apps...there used to be a LOT of APPS for winmo that others didn't have...
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Now if you need something that it cannot do out of the box, what in the world makes you think that outside devs will leave it like that? Seriously? the iPhone can be Jailbroken, Android Rooted, Why do you think WP7 will be locked forever? Mass USB support? Of course, File Managers? Sure, outside app installs? Duh. .
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Same reason we aren't hacking the Instinct?
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M$ is not gonna get a golden pass in..if they can't pull through fast enough they will be eaten by the competition...similar to what happened to the kin...I'm not saying exactly they are doomed but out of all the things they have done, this is the longest stretch....